Today in class we discussed an enormous amount of information in chapter 7 and how the conflicts in it resolve tragically. Before we discussed what tragic things happened in the book and to what people we first went over the definition of tragic. Which is the maximum fall in a short amount of time, and we went over how if it was a maximum fall but in a long period of time you wouldn't call that tragic because it is something that you can see coming. First we started off by going through a class discussion of who we though had the most tragic turn of events in chapter 7. We ended up agreeing that Myrtle had the most tragic event. This is because she got hit by a car and was killed, the person who had been driving the car was daisy, but no one knows that it was daisy besides nick and Gatsby. This was a huge tragedy because myrtle died and it really just came out of no where in the book, which really shows a maximum fall in a very short amount of time. The person who came in a close second was George wilson because Myrtle was his wife which makes you feel so bad for him because she was the only thing he had. Almost everyone had a tragic downfall though. Toms tragic downfall is that Daisy says she doesn't love him anymore so he is afraid he is going to lose his wife. Daisy's tragedy is that she has to either leave Tom and go with who she actually loves now or stay with Tom who she used to love but not anymore. Jordan had little to no downfall because she was smart and stayed out of everyones business and just watched everything go down. Gatsby's tragedy is bad because he thought that Daisy had always loved him and never Tom, but she admits that she used to love tom but since he is living in the past that is not good enough for him. Nicks is that he is going to take the blame for killing Myrtle.
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